I’ve been working mostly on my Cascade site this past week, and here’s some progress. It’s been fun talking about Berlin (perhaps ad nauseam, but oh well). I’ve added some more advanced features, such as html/css tables, and in the “more info” page have made some custom buttons. I hope you enjoy perusing!
I know what you’re thinking: “E316 isn’t a course, Megan! There’s E316M, L, and N!” I hear you. You’re right. There is no E316. But! I’m still making graphics for it. Why? All the TAs for M, L, and N do orientation together.
That out of the way, these weren’t too bad and the client didn’t want the full menu of Canvas assets (why would they? It’s only a two-day orientation.) I picked a generic photo of the UT tower for the backgrounds with a nice, dark shade of blue from the brand color palette. The only issues I ran into were color-correcting the PPT title slide because my nice, dark shade of blue wasn’t being very… nice to the photo I picked.
Today I made the final edits to my PPT redesign assignments and submitted two drafts for the client, in which one includes all original images and the other contains new images that I thought better communicated the content in the slides.
Here are the slides compared to the originals.
Bird Logo:
Andrey Vasiliev from the Noun Project
Valeriy from the Noun Project
Ayub Irawan from the Noun Project
Cat Logo:
sandra from the Noun Project
Matt Hawdon from the Noun Project
Marco Hernandez from the Noun Project
Dog Logo:
Focus Lab from the Noun Project
Anastasia Latysheva from the Noun Project
Vectors Market from the Noun Project
Fish Logo:
Beatrix Rubio from the Noun Project
adinda from the Noun Project
Patrick Morrison from the Noun Project
Turtle Logo:
Cédric Villain from the Noun Project
Andrejs Kirma from the Noun Project
Ecem Acafan from the Noun Project
Yesterday (or should I say Friday), I did the green screen training. It was super simple. I learned a new way to cut out an object, so that’s definitely something!
Today, I got an assignment to create some Canvas graphics and a PowerPoint template for the basic English Lit TAs’ orientation. For now, I’m going with the dark blue from the UT secondary palette. Ideally, I would associate English lit with brown, but that’s not a brand color. Blue it is. So far, I’ve done the Canvas callout buttons:
It’s pretty smooth sailing so far. On Monday, I’ll do the rest of the Photoshop work for the Canvas dashboard and home page banner.
UPDATE: I have to redo them on Monday with new text! No problem, though.
